MAKING
SHADOW PUPPETRY

Komola Collective delivered shadow puppetry performances and shadow puppet-making workshops for GO Create! in Great Ormond Street Hospital as part of their Creative and Wellbeing Week. We also performed our shadow puppetry performance for North London Community Centre's children's festival in Holmleigh Primary School. In November we delivered shadow puppetry making workshop for Stratford Circus Arts Centre.

The story of Bonbibi unfolds deep in the heart of the Sundarbans, the dense mangrove forests spreading from the southern shores of Bangladesh to the easternmost corner of West Bengal.

Humans are slowly destroying the forest, felling trees for wood and animals for food. Dokkhin Rai, a spirit of the forest, is half-man and half-beast. He transforms himself into a tiger to devour humans, taking their lives as payment for all the riches they plunder from the jungle. Bonbibi, a child left in the forest by her poor parents to be raised by animals, is chosen by Allah to embark on a quest. She must restore the balance between man and animal and save the environment they share, their habitat and livelihood.